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...Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. of Portland, Ore. makes more automatic coal stokers than any other firm. In the last few years it has grown so big that it no longer has one annual dealers' convention. It has five-one after another, two days apiece, in Cleveland, Manhattan, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Paul. Last week, as the "traveling convention" got under way in Cleveland, 400 dealers were astonished to hear that Iron Fireman, which made $711,000 in 1937 from an uncompromising warfare on oil burners, was going into the oil burner business itself...
...Iron Fireman has been for twelve years one of the few things for which coalmen could be thankful. In 1923, two years before the big anthracite strike that set the industry staggering, two Portland contractors, Thomas Harry Banfield and Cyrus Jury Parker, took over a small local iron works and with it a clumsy automatic stoker which they improved and called Iron Fireman...
Prime requisite of a fireman is the ability to think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation...
Appointed. Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley: to be Honorary Chief of the Worcester, Mass. Fire Department. Fire-chief Charles L. McCarthy made the appointment to fulfill Funnyman Benchley's boyhood ambition to serve his native city a fireman...
Besides their warnings against the dangers of traffic, the Caesar-Marks songs are calculated to inculcate in children respect for law & order (The Policeman, The Fireman and the Postman, Too), practicality (Remember Your Name and Address), fortitude (Never Be Afraid of Anything). Observes Sticks and Stones and Bones...